First, I’d like to state that any rumours of our (m.3.3.w’s) death have been greatly exaggerated. Protip, people: Koda likes to troll.

If we ever decide to pack it up and close shoppe forever, then we’ll announce it here, on this blog. This goes with any series that might be dropped. We will always communicate with you guys about stuff like that. And again, I’d like to re-emphasise the fact that, if we haven’t announced, on this blog, that we are dropping a series, please consider that series to be active. Some series might take a bit longer to finish than others, but they’ll get done, eventually…

Anyhoo… As you probably know already, we finally got out the DVD rips for Earl and Fairy and, while there was no new content, the quality of the video is quite superiour to the TV version. If you want to see some comparison shots, go to BiGGuY’s site. Keep in mind that there are separate files for the OP and ED in a system we refer to as ordered chapters. It may not work well with all players, but it does save a lot of diskspace and bandwidth. Just use CCCP and all will be well with life, the universe, and everything.

Sorry for the late post. I was eating dinner. Here is episode 21 DVD version of Seto no Hanayome.

Rosario 12 script is about 75% done, although our typesetter is on vacation so I don’t know when that will get done even if I finished the script today.

Hanasakeru 11 script is just about done, but also stuck at typesetting.

I’ll get to editing Jang Geum’s Dream some time this week when I can muster the effort.

So yeah, we are looking for a dedicated translator for episodes 22-26. We have the Japanese manuscripts that the voice actors use for the remaining episode. Here is a sample page from the episode 21 manuscript. If you feel you can help us out, please respond here or contact me on IRC.

Edit: Our other releases (DVD’s 1-5 20, TV 17-19) and [gg]’s 06-16 are on our archive bot, [m33w]imouto on our IRC channel. If we ever get around to doing DVD versions for the older stuff, we will replace each [gg] episode with a DVD version. We will eventually make a batch torrent for all of this stuff. We will also hopefully get around to doing the OVA’s too.

After a long wait, the final episode is finally here! The batches will come later.

Enjoy and look forward to our new project(s) for the winter season!

edit: This is the link to episode 01 h264. Unfortunately, I designed the database in such a way to only hold 100 characters for the torrent link, and the damned name exceeds 100 characters. However, the torrent does work.

The twelfth and final episode of Earl and Fairy (or Hakushaku to Yousei in Japanese). This final episode took a while to do since people were a little busy over the Christmas/New Year break. I’m quite happy with the work we’d done on this project. It was quite decently done, in my opinion. The show itself too was pretty enjoyable for me. There is still much story to be told with Earl and Fairy, so perhaps, there’s some hope for a second season. Unfortunately, I don’t think the show is popular enough to warrant that.

Also, the first volume of the DVD is out, which includes the first two episode. We’re releasing that too. The DVD encodes will only be in h.264 in the matroska container. The OP and ED themes are in separate files, in a system we refer to as ordered chapters. It may not work well with all players other there, but it does save a lot of diskspace and bandwidth for us. To get it to run right, we recommend using a player like Media Player Classic and along with a codec pack like CCCP or K-lite. Those have everything you need to play those files. If the h.264 performance isn’t up to scratch, download CoreAVC h.264 decoder. It’s efficient enough to run 720p files smoothly on low end systems (albeit one with a decent graphics card). Earl and Fairy DVDs aren’t in 720p, though, so don’t worry about that.

Next, I’d like to thank everyone who helped me with the Earl and Fairy project: asagao, ichigo, BiGGuY, and ThaEagle. The ones who helped distribute the releases: Waryas, xshadowfire, Kile, and all you seeders. Also to the QC team and whoever I missed. And lastly, to all of you for watching and your positive comments. Thank you.

Lastly, as for other projects, KgnE OVA 04 will probably be ready shortly. Capu2 is moving… slowly. Negima OVA 02 is not moving at all. One Outs… I think it’s safe to say we have to drop that. Well, look forward to next season’s project, I guess. I don’t think I’ll personally be translating any projects next season, since the line-up is too small, and I might be a little busy. Either way, I’ll be helping mango do Munto, I suppose. That’s all, enjoy.

Some screens to see the difference between the TVrips and the DVDrips:Screens:

Just as we promised, here’s the full batch of the Shigofumi DVDs. So, what’s different in the DVD version? Firstly, some censorship was removed. Especially some scenes with guns. Secondly, the video quality is much higher.

And what have we changed in our scripts? We’ve made huge improvements to the scripts for the first four episodes. They should have a reasonably good level of translation accuracy now. All the episodes were also QCed for any glaring mistakes. I think we’ve made some good improvement over the course of the year in terms of quality. It’s too bad that we’re so much slower nowadays though. But, can’t have everything. Some of our members are quite busy, but they do set aside the necessary time to fansub.

The files are on average, about 250MB (total is 3.24GB), and in standard DVD resolution (of course). However, the videos have been pre-stretched to 16:9 already, so they’re not anamorphic. This was done to make it easier to migrate scripts without the need to resize everything. Our TV releases for Shigofumi was only 100MB per episode, so you can imagine how poor the TV broadcast quality was.

Note: The DVDs are 848×480, the TV releases were 1024×576 (with MUCH less detail) and for comparison were downscaled to 848×480.

here’s Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu R2J DVDs, Episodes 01-04. (EP 03-04 are new, the others are re-uploaded. There’s no difference in the files, so if you already have them no need to re-download, some people had problems with the old torrent, so I re-uploaded to my tracker.
It uses Ordered Chapters so keep the files in one folder to be able to see the OP/ED.

For more INFO: Click ME
Newer versions of mplayer should also support ordered chapters, VLC doesn’t, blame the programmers for not implementing real playback (like Full MKV support and .ass support).

here’s Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu R2J DVDs, Episodes 01 and 02. I will release it every month with 2 episodes per batch.
It uses Ordered Chapters so keep the files in one folder to be able to see the OP/ED.

For more INFO: Click ME
Newer versions of mplayer should also support ordered chapters, VLC doesn’t, blame the programmers for not implementing real playback (like Full MKV support and .ass support).

Hey there, here’s the main encoder of m.3.3.w. In case some of you didn’t know, I also have my own group (which has been part of BakaWolf while m.3.3.w was also ‘merged’). Recently I’ve started my own ripping again, more info can be found on: www.BiG-GuY.nl

Here’s a release you fans might be interested in :).
For the ones that have watched the m.3.3.w tv subbed version, you might consider watching this one, it has much better quality then the TVrips + it’s uncensored. It has lots of pantsu, so if that’s your thing 😉 .

[Edit]
For the people wondering about the quality. The DVDs are much and much better in quality then the TVrips, the HDTV ones were upscales to begin with (so no REAL HDTV) + the DVDs are clean of errors.

For some comparison shots of TV vs DVD (in terms of ‘censoring’): Link